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The U.S. Department of Labor wants you… ...to share your favorite books about working America. The initiative, known as “Books that Shaped Work in America,” was launched by the agency (in partnership with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress) to help commemorate the DOL’s 100th anniversary. According to a news release, the anniversary “presents an opportune time to further explore and discuss the relationship between books and work through the development” of the list. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez started the list, and has since been joined by several former secretaries of labor and other cabinet officials and national figures. To...

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The U.S. Department of Labor wants you…
...to share your favorite books about working America.
The initiative, known as “Books that Shaped Work in America,” was launched by the agency (in partnership with the Center for the Book in the Library of...

When Tim Smith was growing up during the 1950s and '60s, many Civil War veterans from the Dare and Seaford sections of York County still lived on in the memories of relatives, friends and neighbors who had known them and heard their stories.
Several...

The first time William C. Wooldridge held an antique map of Virginia, he was a young Army officer taking a meandering, homesick stroll through the streets of Heidelberg, Germany.
Catching his eye from an old print shop window, the early 1600s map based...

The Paschall Brothers of Chesapeake, an a cappella gospel group with a strong connection to Newport News, were honored in Washington, D.C., last week.The group, led by The Rev. Tarrence Paschall, was among nine winners of the 2012 Natonal Endowment for...

The Paschall Brothers, an a cappella gospel quartet based in Chesapeake with ties to Newport News, has won a prestigious prize from the National Endowment for the Arts.The group, led by the Rev. Tarrence Paschall, will receive one of nine 2012 NEA...

In the history of the American people, many places are precious. But none reaches back so far -- or did so much to shape the nation's identity -- as the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown. Twelve years after the first colonists landed in 1607...

President Barack Obama will speak at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy on Thursday to recognize the historical significance of the Pullman neighborhood — a history in which the South Side high school is also deeply ingrained.
The school...

The black-and-white photograph of Rosa Parks on the bus looks familiar.
She’s staring forward, reenacting her moment in history as if preparing for a place in a grade school textbook on the civil rights movement, conservatively dressed in a hat and...

Rosa Parks wrote at length about her observations and feelings on segregation during the civil rights movement in handwritten accounts that are now being made available to researchers at the Library of Congress. Here are some excerpts: ___ SEGREGATED CITY...

The best box sets are their own worlds, aural encapsulations so fully imagined that five or six hours becomes something to get lost in, like a Brontë sisters bender or a Martin Scorsese weekend.
These are gifts that can help opinionated folkie...

Steven Spielberg's 1998 World War II epic, "Saving Private Ryan," Joel and Ethan Coen's cult comedy "The Big Lebowski" and the 1976 drama "Please Don't Bury Me Alive!" — considered by historians to be the first Chicano...

1. Prepare to share. Family members may want their own copies of Grandma's wedding album. You can scan and digitize prints and slides at home (a photo scanner starts at about $200), but if you have a lot of pics, send them to a service such as...

How's this for domination: Choate-Wallingford is 3-0 and has yet to allow a point, defeating Cushing Academy 55-0, Lawrenceville School 37-0 and Phillips Exeter 49-0. Quarterback John Fadule has thrown eight touchdown passes and rushed for six TDs....

"IF YOU want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." Says the Dalai Lama.
Dan Harris is in that small respected world where news correspondents and TV pundits ply their wares and give informed...

The old melody started as an English tavern song that began To Anacreon in Heav'n, where he sat in full glee.
Later, it was used in an American campaign song that began Ye sons of Columbia, who bravely have fought.
And later still, amateur poet Francis...

It is 1861 and the two men are going off to war. They sit side by side before the camera, their elbows and knees touching. They wear the uniform of the Confederacy and are armed with pistols, knives and a shotgun.
But one is white, the other black; one...

A spring break in the nation's capital is a rite of passage for some families, but if the airfare from the West Coast to the East has stretched your vacation budget, take heart. Many places are free, thanks to government funding (although the sequester...

Fay Kanin, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for the 1958 Clark Gable-Doris Day comedy "Teacher's Pet" and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday. She was 95.
In a writing career that spanned more than...